Becton Dickinson, a medical tech company, has singed a funding deal with Isla Care to further develop the company’s platform focused to support the assessment of post-surgery wounds. The technology is used by patients and clinicians after surgery, to monitor wounds at home in the hope that it will encourage early detection […]
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£12 million allocated as part of Digital Productivity Fund
The NHS Transformation Directorate’s Digital Productivity Programme has allocated £12 million in funding, with a focus on automation, real time location systems, and extended reality. The programme is also supporting ‘other productivity-improving technologies’, including surgery pods, no-code development tools, e-rostering, scheduling and care planning tools, remote monitoring, digital dictation, digital […]
Mid and South Essex Health and Care Partnership goes live with single waiting list platform across the ICS
Mid and South Essex Health and Care Partnership has gone live with a data management platform from Insource, to provide a single system-wide patient tracking list. Part of the ICS’s wider elective recovery programme, the platform provides visibility of patients from referral to treatment waiting lists across three acute sites and […]
Nuffield Trust publishes lessons learned to support patient engagement with digital innovations
The Nuffield Trust, an independent health think tank, has published a new report following an evaluation to explore the factors that support patient and staff engagement in the use of digital healthcare innovations. The paper, ‘Supporting patient engagement with digital health care innovations: Lessons from the Care City test bed’, produced […]
Feature: How is patient flow changing for the NHS?
Responsibility for patient flow is no longer just a nursing task – it is everyone’s responsibility. Katy Cain, clinical consultant for smart health technology provider Alcidion, explores changes in the way patient flow is being managed to respond to NHS pressures, maximise capacity and improve patient outcomes. As a senior […]
Dartford and Gravesham introduces tech for emergency department staff
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust has signed a deal with Alcidion to implement two new technologies from the company to support emergency department staff. The trust will introduce Miya Emergency, a solution to provide clinical decision support functionality, that ‘proactively suggests appropriate actions and automates routine tasks for clinical teams’. The second […]
NHSE publishes guidance for ICSs to introduce virtual ward model
NHS England and NHS Improvement have published guidance to support all Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) with virtual ward programmes. The guidance, entitled “supporting information for ICS leads: enablers for success: virtual wards including hospital at home” comes in support of NHSEI asking all ICSs to extend or introduce the virtual […]
Market consultation opens for digital transformation of screening services
NHS England and NHS Improvement’s Transformation Directorate has launched a market consultation activity focused on the digital transformation of screening services and is asking suppliers for input. The aim of this market engagement is to make suppliers aware of potential tenders, and for NHSEI to understand from suppliers if there is […]
New patient access to GP records set for summer 2022 go-live
The programme that will see primary care patients access new entries in their own GP records if their practice uses the TPP or EMIS systems, is now set to go live by summer 2022. The change means GPIT system configuration will allow existing online users access to health information entered, including the ability to […]
News in Brief: Babylon financial results, AI skin dermatology tool, digital maternity funding, System C updates inline with CDS
Our latest news in brief is here, covering news from an AI dermatology tool receiving regulatory clearance, Babylon publishing its financial results for the year, System C updating its systems inline with clinical data recording practices and lots more… System C updates systems for Commissioning Data Sets v6.3 delivery System C […]
